Re: php & date manupulation functions

rajesh-shriram@gmx.net (Rajesh Fowkar) writes: > Now while updating the form I want to retrieve the date and take out day, > month and year from that date and display the correct selection in the > combo. I could not find any function like say > > day($dbdate); > month($dbdate); > year($dbdate); > > Am I missing something ? Is there anyway to accomplish the above ? or I > will have to store these three values separatly in the database rather than > as a date. Well, there is actually a quite good support for manipulating strings in php. Have a look at the format of your date variable, and use either the regexp functions or string functions like split and explode. Let's say your date is in a format like 'YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss'. Then somehing like list($yy, $mon, $dd, $hh, $min, $ss) = split(" |:|-", $date); would do the trick. -- --Fredrik A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee into theorems.